Sunday, December 27, 2015

I first make a panel by cutting the hardboard into the size I want then sealing the panel with GAC 100. I apply two coats of gesso to the front and back sides of the panel. Then I tint the panel with a napthol crimson red acrylic paint. Using alizarin crimson and cerulean oil paints thinned with cold pressed linseed oil, I sketch the initial drawing on the panel staying very loose with the drawing. This preliminary sketch is used to place where I want the flowers and pool and birdbath to go and the basic structure of the painting.

I start with the darkest darks of the background trees and the foreground space. I also pop in the pure reds and pinks of the flowers.

I have a rubber tipped implement -- looks kinda like an eraser tip -- to loosely add branches and tendrils. I also put in the birdbath. I work back and forth between the foreground and background as well as all over the entire surface at the same time.

Flowers are added and then pushed back or painted over and even painted out, in an ongoing "back and forth" play throughout the entire surface.The finished painting, "Hollyhocks, Echinacea, Lilies, Daisies, and Queen Anne's Lace" next to a gold fish pool. Oil on panel, 12" x 12", c. 2015. Code #121515 S 12x1. SOLD.

I want to wish you a Happy New Year and many blessings in 2016! I appreciate you very much! You are the reason I continue to paint and create beautiful artwork to enrich our living spaces and lives! Thank you for your interest and support over the years! I plan to make 2016 the best year ever with more fabulous paintings!

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